Sentences with phrase «people speaking a foreign language»

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And I recently came across new research showing that people speak with more fluency in a foreign language when they've been drinking, which is a bit more counterintuitive, since speaking in a nonnative tongue obviously requires focus.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

The lawyers we spoke to — all good people — referred to the process whereby natural law was abandoned as though it were a foreign language that they could follow but had not learned to speak.

However it seems that, despite those measures, Italian largely supplanted French as a spoken language in Aosta valley to the point that some young people see French as an annoyance, or at best they'll speak it like a foreign, taught language.

«I find if offensive, insulting, irrelevant and positively cretinous to be told — sometimes by people who can barely speak a foreign language — that I belong to a group of small - minded xenophobes; because the truth is it is Brexit that is now the great project of European liberalism, and I am afraid that it is the European Union — for all the high ideals with which it began, that now represents the ancien regime.»

Today we inhabit a society in which prejudice, fear and hatred of foreigners increasingly erodes logic, morality and even national self - interest; where MPs are targeted; where judges are described as enemies of the people, where a foreign woman who insists on the primacy of parliament is subject to racist abuse and rape and death threats, where you can be verbally and physically attacked if you speak a foreign language in the street or simply happen to look foreign.

It seems speaking more than 2 languages provides a protective effect on memory in elderly people who practice foreign languages throughout their life time or during the time of the research.

When one person's primary love language is «gifts» and the other's is «words of affirmation», they are each speaking a foreign «love language» to their partner.

Besides, if your lady doesn't speak English, it will ravel the situation because it's well knows that Senior Aged people don't tend to learn something new (especially foreign language) as fast as young ones.

While it's okay to want your partner to have a steady income, you can't dismiss people if they don't earn a six - figure paycheck or don't speak 3 foreign languages.

All faculty members in each state university, other than those persons who teach courses that are conducted primarily in a foreign language, shall be proficient in the oral use of English, as determined by a satisfactory grade on the «Test of Spoken English» of the Educational Testing Service or a similar test approved by the Board of Governors.

In contrast, talking to «normal» people who work for a living is like speaking a foreign language.

Around 750 million people speak English as a foreign language (where English is not spoken as a first or second language).

Most Kuna people can't speak any foreign languages next to Kuna.

Here was a land peopled overwhelmingly by mestizos (people of mixed descent) and Indians, with dozens of pre-Columbian languages still spoken, syncretic religious beliefs and rituals reinforcing fatalism, with the dead seemingly more revered than the living... Yet, for all the fascination that foreign artists felt for Mexico between 1910 and 1940, their influence on the country was minimal.

Gore, Hansen don't speak foreign languages; but in other countries — other people are translating it.

If you have someone speaking to you in a foreign language, you can press and hold the earbud, activate Assistant, and it will tell you what the person is saying in your native language.